Today I acquired...........

[4String.]

Careful there laddie they ( West Auckland ) once won the world football cup.

Indeed.

April 12 1909, exactly 55 years before I was born, West Auckland beat a Swiss team 2-0 in the final of the Sir Thomas Lipton trophy, acknowledged as the precursor to the modern World Cup, and 2 years later did the same by beating Juventos 6-1. Not bad for a team made up of coal miners from what was a sleepy pit village.

And Sir Thomas Lipton, born in the Gorbals in Glasgow in 1848, was the same man who established the Lipton's Tea empire. Again, not bad for a man who was born into poverty, left school at 13 and signed on a steam ship as a cabin boy.

 

[My Old Landy]

This turned up today. I am not a fan of digital stuff but thought I would give one a go!

 

[brightspark]

This turned up today. I am not a fan of digital stuff but thought I would give one a go!
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yea but a mechanical one is either metric or imperial and you cant zero them from your last measurement .also when your mince pies are failing the readouts aren't so clever . handy if your lathes imperial and you need to convert to metric

 

[nickk]

Had a trip to the great metropolis of West Auckland this morning and finally got round to picking up what I need to convert my mig set to work with gas:


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And also got a new job and a new daily drive yesterday:


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How about this,taken in 1984 ,in the next village,I lived in mid Sussex then,and I think this was carrying a railway carriage from the bluebell railway.

 

[Mick Annick]

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How about this,taken in 1984 ,in the next village,I lived in mid Sussex then,and I think this was carrying a railway carriage from the bluebell railway.

Johnsons used to haul for Poclain when I worked there, and took on our Bradford-based driver who did the Case skid-steer loader demos when we all got made redundant in 1981

 

[Turbo]

I've replaced my Makita drill twice now, plastic gearbox packed up both times, the batteries were good which is why I bought a replacement body. They're obviously not designed very well as the same thing happened in the replacement, they have done me good service to be fair.

It was time for an upgrade though, much better and worlds apart in quality.

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The cheap Makitas you get in Screwfix, B&Q, etc often come with plastic gearboxes to keep the price down and are junk. But I've stripped several Makitas bought from a proper tool supplier & they had all metal gearboxes in them. In fact I have been very impressed by the build quality of Makita stuff in general, miles ahead of Dewalt & their spare parts prices are cheaper.

 

[nickk]

Johnsons used to haul for Poclain when I worked there, and took on our Bradford-based driver who did the Case skid-steer loader demos when we all got made redundant in 1981

There’s a chap near me who was an engineer there,weren’t they in Hull?

 

[Mick Annick]

I don’t know Nick, in those days I never went further north than Banbury

 

[Chillitt]

I don’t know Nick, in those days I never went further north than Banbury

Very Wise.

 

[bigegg]

A Lansky knife sharpener.

Bit easier to keep in a drawer in the kitchen than the Tormek.

 

[Anguz]

A Lansky knife sharpener.

Bit easier to keep in a drawer in the kitchen than the Tormek.
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so what locates the insertion depth of the blade for repeat re sharpens

 

[bigegg]

so what locates the insertion depth of the blade for repeat re sharpens

Mk1 eyeball.

 

[mechman]

There’s a chap near me who was an engineer there,weren’t they in Hull?

The excavator manufacturer in Hull was Priestman, Packed up years ago. A good tough machine, to many buy outs, take overs etc.

 

[Arc Tourist]

A Lansky knife sharpener.

Bit easier to keep in a drawer in the kitchen than the Tormek.
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In a weak moment, I gave a set like that away years ago, still kicking myself for doing so.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

No pictures.

But a new job. Started today.

A steep learning curve ahead of me.

 

[Maker]

Two pairs of new to me speakers, B&W DM610s and Tannoy F4 customs, currently in the living room to test on my housemate's Sony amp but I'll buy my own soon. Undecided whether I should go for stereo or find even more speakers and go surround sound.

Haven't had the B&Ws on much yet but first impressions of the Tannoys is they're bloody good, fifty quid well spent.

 

[My Old Landy]

I got some cutting fluid and a 14mm end mill to try out. Don't know the quality of Swiss Tech but at £7 not a lot to lose!

 

[Brad93]

I got some cutting fluid and a 14mm end mill to try out. Don't know the quality of Swiss Tech but at £7 not a lot to lose!
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Swiss tech are pretty good.

I like that MWF fluid, got a nice smell compared to rtd

 

[Johnnybravo]

I got some cutting fluid and a 14mm end mill to try out. Don't know the quality of Swiss Tech but at £7 not a lot to lose!
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Swiss tech taps are not bad. Never tried their milling cutters

 

[martsrods]

A small compressor. Picked up off the side of the road, left out for scrap. It took a little fettling, but I got it working well. It will feature in a video out on Friday. Look for Mart's Garage on youtube.

Mart.